Yet Another Family Killed by US Troops in Their Home

According to Ellen Knickmeyer in the Washington Post.

A top police official, as well as a resident who claimed he saw the fighting, said U.S. troops also shot and killed a family of three during house-to-house searches after the firefight.

“I saw corpses on the ground that I believe were of armed men who had clashed with the American forces” and with the Iraqi army, said Ahmad Hashem, the resident. “Then the American soldiers appeared and started searching homes. They raided a house which was close to my home and killed a man named Ahmad Khalaf Hussein, his wife and his 10-year-old son.”

Western news agencies also reported civilian deaths in the fighting. The U.S. military, in the statement from spokesmen in Baghdad, said it knew of no civilian deaths in the engagement.